Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

sm-discuss - Re: [SM-Discuss] Why is wxgtk-new at version 3.1? (wxWidgets confusion in general)

sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Public SourceMage Discussion List

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Ismael Luceno <ismael AT iodev.co.uk>
  • To: Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Why is wxgtk-new at version 3.1? (wxWidgets confusion in general)
  • Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 04:53:16 -0000

It would be interesting to allow both to be installed at the same time,
like we do with Qt 4/5, it helps in preparing for a major upgarde, I
regularly test against development versions.

On 13/Jan/2018 08:28, Vlad Glagolev wrote:
> Yeah, let's downgrade this one, unless we have a _very_ strong reason
> not to do so.
>
> Since we shouldn't treat development branches as stable if the latter
> exist.
>
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 13:19:59 +0100
> Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to get things working on my box again and that includes some
> > stuff using wxWidgets. We have an unfortunate situation where even a
> > rogue wxwidgets spell exists in additon to the WXWIDGET providers wxgtk
> > and wxgtk-new.
> >
> > I would like to fix this, as I'm also partly responsible for
> > perpetuating this mess. One obvious thing to do would be to drop the
> > wxwidgets spell (which is not in stable). But it actually is the more
> > sensible one compared to wxgtk-new: It is at a stable release version
> > 3.0.x, not on the devel branch 3.1.x.
> >
> > Is there any reason we should _not_ downgrade wxgtk-new to the proper
> > release version (and hopefully have more success building things like
> > wxperl … and have working audacity)? The downgrade itself will break
> > things unless we add some smart triggering detecting it. But it's
> > possible to do. And we don't break any upgrade from stable, which still
> > should be our focus … keeping the belief alive that there will be a new
> > stable grimoire eventually.




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page